I've been told I'm an "overachiever", whatever that means. I'm also a procrastinator and Murphy's Law applies to me on a regular basis. I'm an INTJ, or 'Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging' personality type, if you're not into the whole brevity thing...

Likes: coming up with solutions to societal problems, spontaneous midnight beach trips, teaching, laughing, Monty Python, garlic chicken pizza, nerds, Giants baseball, Sharks hockey, UCLA Bruins basketball, making you smile, shooting the sh*t with good friends, all things British, hiking, photography, being too lazy to upload said photos on social networking sites, theater, politics (see: theater), reading FMyLife when I need to feel better about my life, swings (read: playground, not fetish), Frank Sinatra, Van the Man, parentheses, ellipses, commas, and most other punctuation...

Dislikes: deadbeats, The Dodgers/Dodger fans, Rush Limbaugh/Glenn Beck/Fox News, Japanese pop and anime, poor grammar, seafood, the club scene, materialism, general irresponsibility...

Looking for: someone to have fun with and see socially, but not an 'f-buddy'. I like people who know who they are, what they're doing and have a good idea of where they want to go. Because, hey, if we're going in the same direction, why not go together?

I do academic research for 3 hours every day online, and spend weekday afternoons working with some of the most amazing children I have ever met. I fit grad school in the evenings and weekends.

...nothing. I'm somewhat good at everything. Jackie of all trades, master of none.

I've had a lot of compliments on my glasses...?

(airlifted from facebook)

Favorite Music: Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, The Beatles, The Kinks, AC/DC, CCR, Van the Man, Jack Johnson, Norah Jones, Maroon 5

Favorite TV Shows: The West Wing, House MD, Arrested Development, M*A*S*H, The Simpsons, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Ghost Hunters, MythBusters, Sportscenter, CNN News

Favorite Movies: The Silence of the Lambs, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, A League of Their Own, Field Of Dreams, Little Miss Sunshine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Donnie Darko, The Shawshank Redemption

Favorite Books: Harry Potter series, The Audacity of Hope, Next, The DaVinci Code, Dirty Hungarian Phrase Book, Of Mice and Men, Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine, Pride and Prejudice, The Prince, Lolita

Favorite foods: all mexican food sans menudo, mom's lasagna, peach puff pastries

1) companionship
2) peanut butter
3) baseball
4) beaches
5) the internet
6) faith in other human beings

...how to fix public education... how to alleviate the strain on California's prison system...how to legislate parenting without making it seem as though the government is targeting minorities... what the best Scrabble move one could possible play is (current best: 'quixotic' across 2 triple words= 356 points)... how much my MPA program sucks... how much money I'm going to pay into social security over the course of my life that i will never see a dime of in old age... how it's possible that their are people in this country with negative tax liability... and such.

This depends on the Friday. I have class on alternate Saturdays, so some Fridays I am studying and others I am kicking back with friends and a drink.

I sleep with a Winnie the Pooh stuffed animal.

...I haven't scared you off by this point.